Hi there! Cc:ing the three submitters, Colin who is GRUB maintainer and Miguel who wrote the report for the debian-boot meeting where this bug was still discussed. On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:19:41 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > You all reported issues with installing debian with debian-installer > from usb sticks. The issue was that grub2 got installed on the mbr of > the stick instead to the harddisk. But none of you sumitted a full > installation log or more detailed information about your hardware. I did not experience this bug, because even if I started d-i from a USB stick, GRUB-2 installation stopped even before: http://bugs.debian.org/600671 > Even more usefull would be if you could retry the installation using > the latest beta1 images: I *wanted* to use my new shiny Intel SSD so this evening I tried to debug the problem of the bug above and it was quite easy: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600671#45 After that, I re-installed sid on the same SSD *twice*, always starting d-i_squeeze_beta1 from the same USB stick and in both cases the GRUB-2 installation was perfectly fine. FWIW, I previosly tested the same USB stick on QEMU with a virtual disk and, again, GRUB-2 was correctly installed. I have to perform at least another squeeze installation on an i386 computer, but since I am not sure it can boot from USB please do not wait for my confirmation. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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